This book is the first collection of Crommelynck's work in English and includes a translation of The Magnanimous Cuckold, as well as The Merchant of Regrets; The Sculptor of Masks; The Childish Lovers; Golden Guts; Carine, or The Young Woman Who Was Crazy about Her Soul; A Small-Hearted Woman; and Hot and Cold, or Mr. Dom's Idea, all written and published between approximately 1910 and 1930.